Works Update 2 July, 2001 - April's Ancestry
26 August 2007 Update additions 8/2/to 9/25/2009
Andre & Suzanne parents added
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A Time Line of events in the life of André & Suzanne
from 1600’s in France to1720 in New York
Dec 1999- July 2006, april coleman
A timeline and document list of Andre Lamoreaux and Suzanne deLaTour and their parents
Daniel Lamoureux & Marie Touchay and Daniel Delatour & Jeanne Meurail
We also identified Andre’s grandfather Jean Lamoureux and several aunts and uncles.
See also Lamoreaux Time Lines from 1600 to 1890 and Huguenot Time Line – “1600HuguFr”
Several families from the same area went into Holland as well as England. DID WE?
My direct line Lamoreaux names are in bold type.
For more detailed info on the times and places see my timelines for France; England; NYC, 1700; New York 1740; etc.
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“Among the early fugitives from this suicidal act of persecution was Andre Lamoureux, a shipmaster and pilot of the small port of Meche (now Meschers,) province of Saintonge (now Charente Inferieure), near the mouth of the Gironde and a short distance below Bordeaux. “
A.J. Lamoureux, “The Lamoureux Record, 1919” in YesterYears Also in The Lamoreaux Record, 1939, Harold Dane L’Amoureux,
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“Forefathers of David Burlock Lamoreaux, Part 1, The Masse and Mercereau Families” P1-2
Much of the information on the Masse’ and Mercereau family is from Kimball S Erdman’s writings titled, “Forefathers of David Burlock Lamoreaux, Part 1, The Masse and Mercereau Families” He prefaces his writings with the following words:
“During the summer of 1964 I was privileged to visit France in search of information on our Huguenot forefathers, Andre Lamoreaux, Pierre Masse, and Elizabeth Mercereau. In the state archives at La Rochelle I was fortunate to find an old protestant parish register covering the period 1666 to 1682 for Moeze, home of the Masses and Mercereaus.”
He includes a short history of the area… “A few miles south of the famous port of LaRochelle on the west coast of France two rivers meet the sea, the Charents and the Suedre. The area between them for many centuries was the gulf of Saintonge, a shallow bay of marshes, mudflats, channels and islands. Here lived our forefathers...
“The “Temple” at Moeze…[was] a fine landmark… used by the ships in navigating the traitorous channels through the marshes. …Moeze… there was little trouble from the Catholics. …many families had moved to Moeze to escape… a minor rebellion that had discouraged Kind Louis the Fourteenth from building the royal fort at Soubise…”
Kimball S Erdman
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“…France was now bled white by the migration of these religious people.
“For they constituted the cream of France; teachers, philosophers, craftsmen, artists, weavers, farmers, stone workers, merchants, sailors, gunsmiths, iron workers, lapidaries, sculptors, writers, architects, bankers, and a dozen other arts and sciences, not to forget ministers and soldiers leaders.”
“Peter Stuyvesant, first Governor of New Netherlands, …said: ‘They are the most respected, respectable, and valuable accession ever made to the population of our country.’”
The Huguenot Migration in Europe and America, It’s Cause & Effect, C. Malcolm B Gilman
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“’Tis enough to sink the strongest heart to read the accounts sent over. How their children are torn from their mothers and sent into monasteries, their mothers to another, the husband to prison or to the galleys. …the galleys among the criminal convict. Their crimes were either refusing to be converted, and attempting to emigrate, or assisting their brethren to escape France.”
David C. A. Agnew, Protestant Exiles From France, Vol 1, p 8
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Our Enchained Society..
[One group of Huguenots, who were forced to work in horrible slave like circumstances, in France galley ships in 1699, wrote a constitution stating their feelings. It begins;]
"The Almighty God, whom we worship and love, and whom we serve in our chains, is full of tenderness and goodness. He never forsakes His children, but rather the testimony of his blessings and goodness are always before them. If He inflicts them with one hand, He will at the same time support them with the other, that they might not succumb under the weight of their afflictions." The constitution goes on to say, "He is always full of compassion. ... for however unworthy we have been of the great goodness of our Divine Creator, and in spite of all the efforts of our enemies to deprive us of all succor, a good and wise Providence has ever taken care of all our needs. He has inspired ardent charity towards us in our beloved free brethren, and He has on the other side, raised great saints among us slaves, who have given themselves in service to the solace of our enchained society..." Translation by Kenn Garner
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Elie Neau was André’s friend
One example of courage and faith is Elie Neau. He was captured by French Privateers, as was our Andre’, but he was taken back into France, where he was held for five years in galleys, prisons, and dungeons. When pitied by his captors, he replied, “Sir, do not pity me, for could you but see the secret pleasures my heart experiences, you would think me happy.”
“…we continued all four in the other pit for some time without seeing any light at all; but at last they gave us leave to have a lamp while we ate our vitals. The place being very damp, our clothes were rotten by this time; but God was pleased to have mercy upon me, …and another of my fellow sufferers …The Lord broke our fetters… We left two of our companions in that dreadful pit, and about 370 others on board the galleys, where they glorify the name of God with unparalleled courage and consistency.”
After his release, he says he writes his account, “To comfort …the faithful servants of Jesus Christ, and to confound the Emissaries of Satan, who would fain make the world believe that there is no persecution in France.” David C. A. Agnew, Protestant Exiles From France, Vol 2 p 32-37
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“There have been few people on earth so upright and single minded, so faithful in the discharge of their duties toward God and man, so elevated in aim, so dignified in character.’
“The whole number of Huguenot emigrants to America was relatively small …but as John Fiske says, ‘In determining the character of a community, one hundred selected men and woman are more potent than a thousand men and women taken at random,’ and the Huguenot refugees were “selected,’ if ever a body of men and women had the right to be so called. For two hundred years France had been like a vast furnace; the fires of persecution had been refining and testing until only the pure gold was left. For two hundred years the persecution which had sought to destroy, had been cultivating, instead, those heroic virtues which enabled the small band of Huguenot refugees to America to write their names so large upon the honor roll of the republic. Truly, the Huguenot Emigrants were a selected people – selected for their love of liberty, their love of human rights, their devotion to principle, their unswerving loyalty to conscience. Free America, Protestant America, owes a vast debt to these Protestants of France.”
Lucian Fosdick, The French Blood In America, 1973
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“Inventive and industrious, they applied themselves with great success to the mechanical arts. The manufactures of …cloth, …ironworks, and paper mills, and tanneries,… In every department of labor, they were fitted to exceed by their morality, their intelligence, and their thrift. The truthfulness and honesty of the Huguenot became proverbial. ‘They are bad Catholics,’ said one of their enemies, ‘but excellent men of business.’ ‘All our seaports,’ complained another, ‘are full of heretic captains, pilots and traders, who, inasmuch as their souls are altogether busied in traffic, make themselves more perfect therein than Catholics can well be.’ Religiously observing one day in seven as a day of rest, their devotion to trade was not interrupted by the many saints’ days… Surrounded by watchful enemies, and schooled to self-restraint, they were prudent and circumspect in their dealings with others, and ready to combine and co-operate among themselves in their business procedures.
“Meanwhile their loyalty to the government could not be impeached. …found the Huguenots firm in their attachment to the throne.”
“The Huguenots were inoffensive to the state, and positively important to the material interests of the country. The king had confessedly no better servants than they,… France had no more peaceable, moral, enterprising citizens. Charles W. Baird, History of the Huguenot Emigration to America, p 240-1
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“A man who has given up what is for him the dearest thing in life has always thereafter a certain aloofness, a certain detachment: having survived the keenest anguish of all, he knows himself superior to most of the tribulations that the world can place before him. Having denied him what he most wished, the world has lost, to a substantial degree, the power to wound or dismay him further.”
[This comment was about George Washington. I photocopied it. Where did I get it?]
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Exile is the emptiness - for however much you brought
with you, there's far more you left behind.
Exile is the ego that shrinks, for how can you prove
what you were and what you did?
Exile is the erasure of pride.
Exile is the escape that is often worse than the prison.
Paul Tabori, The Anatomy of Exile
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“…these two kingdoms, both of which I regard as my own country,
since I was born in the first and prepare myself to die in the other.”
The Huguenot in England Immigration and Settlement c 1550-1700, Bernard Conttret p 210
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“Merchants from the important French seaport of La Rochelle, its neighboring province Aunis, and nearby Isle of Re’ were the most prominent Huguenot arrivals in New York. These men had been active in trade and in construction and outfitting of ships, and had even insured the ventures undertaken in their vessels. …had owned …ships in La Rochelle. New York City, 1664 - 1710 Conquest and Change, Thomas J Archdeacon, p 42-3
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"... coming to the Colonies and settling there is not as simple a matter as we might imagine it today. Money, and a lot of it, was needed for those who wanted to come as free agents rather than indentured servants. One needed not only to pay for the ocean fare on the pier, but also the money for the land, which was payable in advance, in England. ... Artisans needed rent money and raw material for their trade. The language also constituted a certain barrier for the new immigrant. Unless the Huguenot could make himself understood in English, there was little opportunity for him in trade”
" A Brief History of the Huguenots, Rev Herbert L Stein-Schneideer, Washington, DC, 1973.
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“By the West Indies, it was common at that day, to designate the whole continent of America. Jean de Laet, one of the directors of the West India Company, wrote a ‘Description of the West Indies,’ the third chapter of which, entitled ‘Virginia,’ included an account of New Netherlands. “…from Holland to Virginia in the West Indies.”
Charles W. Baird, History of the Huguenot Emigration to America, p 167-168
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André & Suzanne Lamoreaux France Timeline and Document List
1600’s
1608 “…trade with the New world,… Many merchants of Rochelle and other ports were
actively engaged in it,… p 84
Charles W. Baird, History of the Huguenot Emigration to America,
1610 May France Henry IV of Navarre is assassinated he is succeeded by his son, Louis XIII,
9 years old whose mother is Catholic. She reaffirmed the Edict of Nantes.
“However, [Cardinal] Richelieu determined to break the back of the Protestants. He began by laying siege to La Rochelle from land and sea. …13 weeks with out bread – the fortified city fell. Of an original 18,000 Huguenots, not 5,000 survived.
“..with the death of Henry, …persecution and disintegration. …in 22 years of peace, the Huguenots had lost their organization. They no longer had leaders within the army; they no longer had princes, nobles, or even sympathizers in the ruling church. P 17
“Louis XIV, …set about on the most terrible persecution of all time. First, the Edict was revoked by the King. Then followed the persecution. The Huguenots no longer had fortresses, cities, nor organization. Twenty years had passed under the protection of the King, Henry IV, They were like lambs before the wolves. 800,000 perished in galleys, prisons, or by the noose. There was no relief, no hope.”
“…the systematic destruction of the Huguenot churches; the destruction of the Fortress of La Rochelle, of Montabon; the systematic enslavement of the Huguenots; the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV; the atrocious of the dragoons; the extinction of CIVIL and RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN FRANCE. …deceit, vengeance, and hate; …death upon a helpless people who wished only to worship God according to the dictates of their own conscience.”
The Huguenot Migration in Europe and America, It’s Cause & Effect, C. Malcolm B Gilman
1620 of Mechers, C-M France, Jean Lamoureux, father of Daniel Lamoureux father of André Lamoureux is born near Mechers, France
In the christening record of Catherine Biset, 27 Feb 1656 our Andre's father, Daniel Lamoureux is listed as: "Daniel Lamoureux, son of Jean Lamoureux," Also listed is Daniel's wife, the "honorable woman Marie Touchay,” --- each infant is presented by both a male and female adult. Marie is the female presenter, not the wife of Jean. See Andre’s christening record.
“Sunday evening 25 Nov 1663 were baptized --- André son of Daniel Lamoureux and Marie Touchay his wife. Presented for baptism by Mr. Jean Gouin, royal sergeant, and Marthe Touchay. Born 3 Nov 1663.
Registers of the French Reformed Church of Cozes, Charente-Maritime 1656 - 1668 (Baptemes 1656-1688, collection de partemental)
[was originally Xaintonge, France]FHL #1860585 Item #5
1621-22 “…many Norman ministers thought it prudent to flee to England.”
The Huguenot Population of France 1600-1685, Philip Benedict
1628 La Rochelle, France About 50 miles north of Meschers, where Andre’ lived, lay the port of
La Rochelle which was often a center of contention. The Roman church, controlling the government, lay siege to La Rochelle in 1628. Protestantism was strong in the surrounding areas, too. One reason the Huguenots held out so long in this area is “…because of the remoteness and inaccessibility… the protection of the marshes and freedom of the sea, the resistance of its Protestantism was unbroken, and from the early days of Reformation to the Revolution…” this area was a constant stronghold for the Huguenots in France
It also gave protection to those who tried to leave. The coast was full of natural caves along the shore that hid the fugitives. “Fugitives were able to find means to escape… the refugees found ready helpers in the freemen of the sea.”
Publications of the Huguenot Society of London, vol 20. p. ix
Records of French Church of Bristol, England is also found here.
“La Rochelle …was especially hard hit. This capital of Huguenot resistance housed about 17,000 Protestants in 1610s but the terrible siege of 1629 killed close to 10,000 people, and, following the fort’s fall, Protestant immigrants were forbidden to settle in the city…”
The Huguenot Population of France, by Philip Benedict, p 51
Huguenot population of La Rochelle 1610-19 = 86% 1631-40 = 45%
1655-64 = 35% 1675-84 = 21%
The Huguenot Population of France, by Philip Benedict, p 54
1635-36 Metz, France “…1635-36, when the plague wiped out 20% of the congregation at a stroke.”
The Huguenot Population of France, by Philip Benedict, p 47
1640 of Mechers, C-M France, Daniel Lamoureux father of André Lamoureux is born near Mechers, France
“Sunday evening 25 Nov 1663 were baptized --- André son of Daniel Lamoureux and Marie Touchay his wife. Presented for baptism by Mr. Jean Gouin, royal sergeant, and Marthe Touchay. Born 3 Nov 1663.
Registers of the French Reformed Church of Cozes, Charente-Maritime [originally Xaintonge, France] 1656 - 1668 (Baptemes 1656-1688, collection de partemental) FHL #1860585 Item #5
1645 of Mechers, C-M France, Marie Touchay mother of André Lamoureux is born near Mechers, France
“Sunday evening 25 Nov 1663 were baptized --- André son of Daniel Lamoureux and Marie Touchay his wife. Presented for baptism by Mr. Jean Gouin, royal sergeant, and Marthe Touchay. Born 3 Nov 1663.
Registers of the French Reformed Church of Cozes, Charente-Maritime [originally Xaintonge, France] 1656 - 1668 (Baptemes 1656-1688, collection de partemental) FHL #1860585 Item #5
1646 Meschers, C-M, France Daniel de LaTour, father of Suzanne deLaTour is born near Mechers, France
“Sunday morning 19 Dec 1666 was baptized --- Susanne daughter of the deceased Daniel Delatour and jeanne Meurail. Presented for baptism by henry Martineau and Susanne Biton. Born 9 Dec 1666.” [This sad news indicates that Daniel died within 9 months previous to Suzanne’s birth, 9 Dec 1666.]
Registers of the French Reformed Church of Cozes, Charente-Maritime 1656 - 1668 (Baptemes 1656-1688, collection de partemental)
[was originally Xaintonge, France]FHL #1860585 Item #5
1650 Meschers, C-M, France Jeanne Meurail mother of Suzanne deLaTour is born near Mechers, France
“Sunday morning 19 Dec 1666 was baptized --- Susanne daughter of the deceased Daniel Delatour and jeanne Meurail. Presented for baptism by henry Martineau and Susanne Biton. Born 9 Dec 1666.” [This sad news indicates that Daniel died within 9 months previous to Suzanne’s birth, 9 Dec 1666.]
Registers of the French Reformed Church of Cozes, Charente-Maritime 1656 - 1668 (Baptemes 1656-1688, collection de partemental)
[was originally Xaintonge, France]FHL #1860585 Item #5
1649 England Charles I, of England is beheaded. Prince of Wales takes title of Charles II. P 294
Bernard Grum, The Timetable of History, Simon & Schuster,
Charles II, “…you shall receive as much liberty as you have ever received under any of my predecessors.” His brother James II, later king, followed his example.
Weiss, M. Charles., History …French Protestant Refugee
…Edit of Nantes to Our Day, vol 1
“In the first half of the 17th century there could be counted in France 806 churches, divided into 16 provinces, 62 conferences.: …The third, [province] in which were comprised Saintonge, the Angoumois, l’Aunis and les Iles, was divided into 5 conferences; those of Aunis, of Saint-Jean-d”Angely, of Iles, of saintonge, and the Angoumois….The 6th, containing Poitou, comprehended the three conferences of Upper Languedoc, Middle Poitou, and Lower Poitou…. The national synod, which met 29 times in the space of 100 years. The first was held at Paris, in 1559; the last at Loudon, in 1659.” p 36-
M. Charles Weiss, History of the French Protestant Refugee from…, 1854,
“Among the first of these repressive measures, was a decree depriving pastors of the privilege of preaching in the annexes, or out-stations, …prohibited the singing of psalms in private houses, …Children were enticed or carried off from their homes, to be educated as Roman Catholics.” p 180
Charles W. Baird, History of the Huguenot Emigration to America,
[Find these church records]
1655-1658 Cozes, Saintonge, France Baptisms Records for French Reformed Church in Cozes; are kept
[Cozes is about 5 miles up river from Meschers.]
See Kenn’s Translation of these in SLC FH Library
[NOTE: We have now been able to tie these to our Andre’ and Suzanne.]
[Baptism records of the French Reformed Church of Cozes, Saintonge, France are available. These were found, copied and translated by Kenn Garner in 1988. Kenn went to the National Archives in Paris, France and found these under the Manuscript section #Cote [code] MS 284. The manuscript, translation from Old French into English and index, is available at the Salt Lake Family History Center. The record covers a time period from 3 Jan 1655 through 13 Oct 1658.]
[There are several Lamoureux and de La Tour names listed in Cozes records.]
[Lamoureux Adult names on this record are as follows:]
Andre Lamoureux - is godfather to Marie Begouin dau of Pierre & of Margueritte Renouleau, 9 Dec 1655
Andre Lamoureux presents Jeanne Mioleau, dau of Pierre Mioleau & Jeanne Lamoreaux for baptism, 6 May 1657, along with Anne Pasquier.
Daniel Lamoureux presents Jean Gouin, son of Jean Gouin & Jeanne Lamoureux for baptism 19 Aug 1657, along with Marie Lamoureux.
Jean Lamoureux presents Marie, dau of Pierre Dugua & of Suzanne Gaillard for baptism 9 Dec 1655 Along with Elisabeth Goguet
[Jean Lamoureux is also father of Jeanne listed below (Dugua name appears in both events)]
Jeanne Lamoureux, wife of Jean Gouin [see above Daniel Lamoureux]
Jeanne Lamoureux, wife of Pierre Mioleau [see above Andre Lamoureux]
Marie Lamoureux [see above Daniel Lamoureux]
[One Lamoureux child is listed:]
Jeanne Lamoureux, chr on 6 Jan 1657 dau of Jean Lamoureux & Marie Dugua. [No witnesses listed.]
[De La Tour Adult names:]
Anne de La Tour [see below Daniel de La Tour child]
Daniel de La Tour [my Daniel] [see below both de La Tour children]
Marie de La Tour, wife of Paul Coyeaud, son Charles Coyeaud is born & baptized 20 Mar 1655- Child presented by Mathieu Charles Gouin & Esther Ryvolland.
Marie de La Tour, wife of Paul Coyeaud, son Jacques Coyeaud baptized
15 Oct 1656 [No witnesses].
[Two de La Tour children are listed:]
Daniel de La Tour, chr 4 Feb 1657 son of Daniel de La Tour & Jeanne Meurail Witnesses: Daniel Coyeaud & Anne de La Tour
Jean de La Tour, chr 13 Oct 1658, son of Daniel de La Tour & Jeanne Meuriol
[Adults would have to be born before about 1640.]
[Baptism records of the French Reformed Church of Cozes, Saintonge, France These were found, copied and translated by Kenn Garner in 1988. Kenn went to the National Archives in Paris, France and found these under the Manuscript section #Cote [code] MS 284.
[NOTE: Some things we know from this record: Lamoureux & de laTour lived here about the time Andre’ & Suzanne were born. There is a Jean Lamoureux & Marie Dugua having children at this time. There is an adult Andre’, Daniel, Jean & Jeanne Lamoureux. We have now tied these to our Andre’ and Suzanne! Cozes is about 5 miles up river from Mesche’.]
1657 Jan 24 Xaintonge, France Daniel Delatour – is born son of Daniel Delatour and Jeanne Meurail
Cozes, Charente-Maritime - Baptemes 1656-1688, LDS film #1860585, item #5. MFHC, June 2007 –
1657 Feb 4 Xaintonge, France Daniel Delatour - christened son of Daniel Delatour and Jeanne Meurail
Brother to our Suzanne latour
“Sunday morning, 4 Feb 1657 was baptized - - -Daniel Delatour son of Daniel [Delatour] and jeanne meuriel his wife. Presented for baptism by Daniel Coquillet and Anne Delatour. Born 24 Jan 1657 “ Who is Anne Delatour, how related?]
Cozes, Charente-Maritime - Baptemes 1656-1688, (collection de partemental) LDS film #1860585, item #5. MFHC, June 2007 – translated by Kenn Garner
1658 Aug15 Xaintonge, France Jean Delatour – is born son of Daniel Delatour and Jeanne Meurail
Cozes, Charente-Maritime - Baptemes 1656-1688, LDS film #1860585, item #5. MFHC, June 2007 –
1658 Oct 13 Xaintonge, France Jean Delatour - christened son of Daniel Delatour and Jeanne Meurail
Brother to our Suzanne latour
"Sunday morning 13 Oct 1658 [was] baptized Jean (Jehan) son of Daniel Delatour and Jeanne Meurail, his wife. Born 15 Aug proceeding [1658]." Presented for baptism by Jean (Jehan) Morisse and Anne Durand.
Cozes, Charente-Maritime - Baptemes 1656-1688, (collection de partemental) LDS film #1860585, item #5. MFHC, June 2007 – translated by Kenn Garner
1660 Jan 13 Xaintonge, France Jeanne Delatour - born dau of Daniel Delatour and Jeanne Meurail
Cozes, Charente-Maritime - Baptemes 1656-1688, (collection de partemental) LDS film #1860585, item #5. MFHC, June 2007 –
1660 Jan 25 Xaintonge, France Jeanne Delatour - christened dau of Daniel Delatour and Jeanne Meurail
Sister to our Suzanne latour
“Sunday morning 25 Jan 1660 was baptized by Mr. Fontaine Pasteur of the Church de Fauideau? of the Synod of L’Ilse de France, Jeanne Delatour daughter of Daniel and Jeanne Meurail his wife. Presented for baptism by Samuel Biton and Jeanne Roy. Born 13 Jan 1660.”
Cozes, Charente-Maritime - Baptemes 1656-1688, (collection de partemental) LDS film #1860585, item #5. MFHC, June 2007 – translated by Kenn Garner
1660 Nov 28 Xaintonge, France Pierre Touzeau is christened – son of Isaac and Marthe Touchay
Andre Lamoreaux’s mother, Marie Touchay is listed as sister to Marthe Touchay
"Sunday morning 28 Nov 1660 were baptized by the above Sr Gommard: Pierre Touzeau son of Isaac and Marthe Touchay his wife. Presented for baptism by Jean Touzeau and Marie Touchay, his uncle and his aunt. Child born 21 Nov 1660.“
Registers of the French Reformed Church of Coze,Charente-Maritime Baptisms 1656-1688(FHL #1860585 Item #5 Our slide 21]
1660-1670 France Protestant “…population in 1660-1670 breaks down by categories as follows:
Northern Big cities 47% Southern big cities 60%
N. small towns 48% S small towns 51%
N rural 31% S rural 11%
The Huguenot Population of France, by Philip Benedict, p 19
1661 France “At the death of Mazarin; Louis XIV begins, in 1661, his reign, the longest in
French history. He dies in 1715.” P 9
“Though the Edit of Nantes was made ‘irrevocable’ by Henry IV, Louis XIV simply suspends one provision of the Edit after the other. Destruction of churches, defense of Pastors to correspond with each other, defense for Protestants to hold wide variety of professions and offices, are among the many vexatory edicts which concern the members of the ‘RPR’.”
“The next step is religious terror:…”
Rev Stein-Schneider, , “A Brief History of the Huguenots”
1661 France “Frances Reformed temples… often attracted worshipers from well beyond the
immediate locality in which they were located and not infrequently saw a change in the area from which they recruited their members, either as annex churches were created nearby, or as happened with increased frequency after 1661, as neighboring temples were closed down for violation of the terms of the Treaty of Nantes interpreted ‘a la rigueur.”
“Many of the registers note… the place of residence of the families…”
Footnote mentions “lists of Protestant churches existing in 1603, 1620 & 1626 & of those closed between 1656 & 1685”
The Huguenot Population of France, by Philip Benedict, p 14-15
[See this book for references of records available.]
1663 Sept 2 Xaintonge, France Isaac Delatour - christened son of Daniel Delatour and Jeanne Meurail
Brother to our Suzanne latour
“Sunday morning 2 Sep 1663 were baptized by Mr. Masson, pastor of this Church of Cozes, - - - Isaac son of Daniel Delatour and jeanne Meurail his wife. Presented for baptism by Isaac bouyer and Susanne Martineau. Born 4 Aug 1663.”
Cozes, Charente-Maritime - Baptemes 1656-1688, (collection de partemental) LDS film #1860585, item #5. MFHC, June 2007 – translated by Kenn Garner
* * * * * * * We Found Andre’s and Suzanne’s Birth records * * * * * * *
1663Nov 3 of Mechers, C-M France, André Lamoureux is born near Mechers, Saintonge, France
“Sunday evening 25 Nov 1663 were baptized --- André son of Daniel Lamoureux and Marie Touchay his wife. Presented for baptism by Mr. Jean Gouin, royal sergeant, and Marthe Touchay. Born 3 Nov 1663.
In the christening record of Catherine Biset, 27 Feb 1656 our Andre's father, Daniel Lamoureux is listed as: "Daniel Lamoureux, son of Jean Lamoureux," Also listed is Daniel's wife, the "honorable woman Marie Touchay,” --- each infant is presented by both a male and female adult. Marie is the female presenter, not the wife of Jean. See Andre’s christening record.
Registers of the French Reformed Church of Cozes, Charente-Maritime 1656 - 1668 (Baptemes 1656-1688, collection de partemental)
[was originally Xaintonge, France]FHL #1860585 Item #5
The Gold Book says:
"Lamoureaux, Andre, originally from La Corberaie de Lusignan,
Denization given at London on 22.6.1694, for Andre and his wife, Suzanne LaTour and their daughters Elizabeth and Judith.
They moved to New York in 1700."
The Gold Book, Vol IV, handwritten, by Jean Rivierre, found in France,
Jan 2000 by Allen Steele >>>>>>>>
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